Who We Are

Red Canary Song is a grassroots organization of Asian and migrant sex workers and massage workers, organizing transnationally. Our work is in the tradition of sex worker mutual aid, and we center base-building with migrant massage workers through a labor rights, migrant justice, and PIC abolitionist framework. We believe that the full decriminalization of sex work is necessary for the safety and survival of massage workers and trafficking survivors. #RightsNotRaids #ResourcesNotRescue

We, ourselves, are not a 501c3 nonprofit as we work against saviorism and the nonprofit industrial complex that often positions themselves as rescuers of Asian and Migrant sex workers, massage workers, and other marginalized groups who engage in informal labor economies. We do not participate in advocacy, social work, or activism as a career. We are a volunteer-based group with a core collective of sex workers, massage workers, and trusted allies who are fiscally sponsored by a 501c3 organization that manages our donations, grants, and taxes, while we get to autonomously make organizing decisions to serve our community on a direct needs basis.

Mutual aid, as opposed to charity, does not connote moral superiority of the giver over the receiver. Our mutual aid includes, but is not limited to: interpretation/translation services, connection to legal, medical, and immigration services, emergency cash, courtroom support, groceries, medical & hygiene supplies, clothing and other forms of care. We promote safety, health, pride, and mutual care, whilst fighting stigma, isolation and systemic violence.

our history

We began our organizing in a fight for justice and police accountability, after the death of Flushing massage worker, Yang Song, who was killed during a police raid in November 2017. We started as a project to provide legal support for her family and help her mother pay for healthcare expenses. Watch our video below to learn more about our origins.